This
thread caught my attention this afternoon and it seems there actually a fair number of Philly and Philly area dopers. I don’t know if this question belongs here or not but since it has a kind of meeting people IRL taste to it I figured this was the best place…feel free to move it if it isn’t Mods.
Anyway my question is do any Philly dopers frequent La Colombe. Given how it is usually filled with the kind of people you meet here it wouldn’t surprise me at all. For those of you who don’t know it’s a small coffee shop near Rittenhouse Square on 19th St. and is typically frequented by artist types and others with mildly eccentric leanings.
Who knows, maybe I’ve been having coffee with a few of you without even knowing it.
I used to hang out at La Colombe. They just banned smoking and that was the final nail in the coffin for me. I went for a couple of years and chatted with a few college professor types and Philly hipsters. After a while some things started to happen that made me stop going: I’d see too many people that I NEVER wanted to see again much too frequently and I found I was having the same conversations over and over again.
Things might be more interesting there now, right after the huge fight at Transit (night club) because there was a bit of overlap in the clientele.
I thought it would matter to me when they banned smoking but I’ve actually I’ve found it much more pleasant without the smoke (and it’s helped me cut down BIGTIME on my habit) and who knows, maybe many of the people you disagreed with left because of the ban as well. I have to say that I think it was a good choice (despite what Roni said about finding Todd with a bullet in his head) I used to leave reeking of cigarette smoke now I leave reeking of coffee In alll seriousness though the climate there has changed quite a bit and even as a smoker I am forced to say for the better.
If you should decide to drop by again I’m pretty easy to pick out, look for the guy with the long blonde hair with his nose buried in work on his laptop or chatting with Bart the artist.
moi, a fellow NJ who acts as though she’s from Philly